25 years building systems that don't go down.
Now building systems that think.
Progressive roles across DevOps engineering, systems administration, network engineering, and infrastructure — building the deep Linux, networking, virtualization, and storage foundations that underpin modern cloud and AI platform architecture. Includes DevOps Engineer at Vets First Choice/Covetrus, Systems Engineer at EVO Payments, Senior System Administrator at MEMIC, and earlier roles in consulting, technical support, and national-scale deployments.
Self-directed research conducted alongside professional work, 2024–present. Private GPU hardware, production-pattern systems, real evaluations — not proofs of concept.
Dual-node cluster serving 30B–397B parameter models (Nemotron, Qwen, Cascade). SRE discipline applied to inference: quantitative benchmarking, config management, Prometheus/Grafana observability, custom vLLM fork for hardware-specific optimizations.
Production multi-agent system with agents for infrastructure ops, automated evaluation, project tracking, and workflow automation. Integrated with real operational tooling — not a demo.
Comprehensive eval combining industry-standard benchmarks (via lm-evaluation-harness) with custom agentic testing: 16 tool-calling tests, text quality assessment, multi-turn reasoning scenarios. InfluxDB + Grafana dashboards.
Executed preference alignment and parameter-efficient fine-tuning on hybrid architectures. Full-cycle pre/post evaluation for catastrophic forgetting detection. Developed internal guidelines for small-active-parameter MoE models.
Semantic search pipelines providing persistent contextual memory across agent sessions. Multi-phase AI pipelines with swappable LLM backends.
An AI assistant trained on my background is coming soon.
chris@whyland.net